Project records

Real orders, documented from the thread up

Real completed trading-pin orders: what was asked for, how many proof rounds it took, what it shipped as, and what we learned. No invented testimonials, no guessed specifications.

Sport

State

11U Flying Chanclas

A North Texas 11U team, 780 spinner pins — the longest design conversation in the baseball set.

780 pins2.0"

Killbuck · NY · Western New York · baseball

Aces 12U

A parent who thought the team's Cooperstown pins weren't good enough — so they had one made for their own kid instead.

100 pins2.0"

Elkins Park · PA · Philadelphia · 12U · baseball

Anderson Monarchs

Two orders, two years apart, and only one jersey number in common — the roster turned over almost entirely and the account stayed.

Verbatim quote

Burke · VA · Northern Virginia · baseball

Annandale North Springfield Little League (ANSLL)

Four orders, three years, and two different people doing the buying — a little league account that outlived the person who opened it.

Antelope Valley · CA · baseball

Antelope Valley Coyotes

A club that wanted one pin every age group could use — and got the clearest demonstration in the archive of why the bigger pin costs less.

1,000 pins2.0"

Senoia · GA · Metro Atlanta · softball

AP Pope 12U

The customer named their event on the quote form before anyone picked up the phone: Softball World Series.

2.0"

Apple Valley · MN · Twin Cities metro · baseball

Apple Valley Baseball

A thousand spinner pins with a banner and glitter — and a last-minute artwork change because a player left the program before Cooperstown.

1,000 pins2.25"Banner included

Winchester · CA · Inland Empire · baseball

Arsenal Elite

Two sizes quoted side by side at 400 slider pins — 2.25 inch against 3 inch — with a glitter finish.

400 pins

· baseball

Athletes HQ

Six pin designs, two of them on dangles, plus a six-foot banner — and a quantity mix-up caught after the order had already reached the factory.

Banner includedVerbatim quote

Whitesburg · GA · Metro Atlanta · softball

Atlanta Premier

A softball team heading to their World Series asked to see their pin with the softball taken off it.

200 pins2.25"

PA · baseball

Avon Grove Bombers

A customer who did his own arithmetic, twice — and got a straight answer both times.

670 pins2.0"Verbatim quote

Scottsdale · AZ · Phoenix metro · softball

AZ Sting

An inquiry at 4:48pm, a paid invoice the same night, and approved artwork by nine the next morning — because the team travelled in three weeks.

300 pins1.5"Verbatim quote

Hanover · MA · South Shore · club · hockey

Bay State Breakers

A returning customer who couldn't name the style he wanted, whose final design was reverse-engineered from a decade-old pin someone dug out of a drawer at the rink.

300 pins3.0"Verbatim quote

Satellite Beach · FL · Space Coast · softball

Beachside Sirens

Six hundred two-and-a-half inch pins, and the only thing holding the order up was whether they should have glitter.

600 pins2.5"Verbatim quote

San Lorenzo · CA · East Bay · corporate

Bikerdahan

A returning customer who draws his own pin and sends it in for execution — two years running.

100 pins1.5"Verbatim quote

Baxter · MN · Brainerd Lakes · association · hockey

Brainerd Amateur Hockey Association

An entire association covered by one order — 1,500 pins on a single invoice, with a rush that TPC had to chase the factory to protect.

1,500 pins2.0"Banner includedVerbatim quote

Pennsville · NJ · South Jersey · hockey

Campus Wild 12AA

A South Jersey 12AA team on a hard January deadline — routed by freight forward specifically to avoid the tariff.

375 pins1.75"

Chaska · MN · hockey

Chaska Chanhassen Hockey Association (CCHA)

Three teams from one Minnesota association, three separate orders, two different families — and a puzzle-piece pin set that had to be re-engineered so it would survive production.

Rockledge · FL · Space Coast · corporate

City of Rockledge

Fifteen hundred pins for a Florida city — the largest corporate run in the collection, and the lowest price per pin anywhere in it.

1,500 pins1.5"

Cleveland · MS · Mississippi Delta · softball

Cleveland All-Stars

A Mississippi softball team heading to the Dizzy Dean World Series — and the cheapest per-pin price in the whole library.

2.0"Verbatim quote

Westerville · OH · Columbus metro · hockey

Columbus Mavericks

A 1.5-inch order — below the 2-inch trading floor TPC normally recommends — and the smallest pin in the sample.

400 pins1.5"

8U · softball

Corona Avengers / KAT 8U

Six prices on the table at once — two sizes across three quantities — and an 8U team picked the middle of the ladder.

400 pins2.5"

Corryton · TN · East Tennessee · corporate

Corryton Community Club

A community club in East Tennessee ordered 224 spinner pins for an event called The Possum Chase.

224 pins1.5"

· hockey

CYHA Thunder

The customer set a budget in her first message, and the glitter came off the pin to keep it.

330 pins2.0"Verbatim quote

Mahopac · NY · Hudson Valley · hockey

Danbury Hat Tricks

A customer who arrived with finished artwork and declined every suggestion to improve it.

200 pins1.5"Verbatim quote

Burnsville · MN · Twin Cities metro · corporate

Dayforce

An executive assistant asked if we had 400 pins in stock. We do not stock pins — but she already had the artwork, so there was nothing to design.

400 pins1.25"Verbatim quote

Needham · MA · Greater Boston · hockey

East Coast Wizards 14U Elite

A hockey team heading to Lake Placid wanted the town's name on the pin — and said so on the first design round, which is why the artwork went through four versions in six days.

165 pins1.5"

Franklinville · NJ · corporate